Sand Canyon Wash

Sand Canyon Wash
Location
Country	United States
State	California
City	Irvine
Physical characteristics
Source	Sand Canyon Reservoir
• location	San Joaquin Hills
• coordinates	33°38′51″N 117°47′37″W[3]
• elevation	163 ft (50 m)
Mouth	San Diego Creek
• location	William R. Mason Regional Park
• coordinates	33°39′29″N 117°50′33″W[3]
• elevation	20 ft (6.1 m)
Length	6.9 mi (11.1 km), East-west
Basin size	4 sq mi (10 km^2)
Discharge
• location	Culver Drive, near the mouth[1]
• average	1.05 cu ft/s (0.030 m^3/s)[2]
• minimum	0.103 cu ft/s (0.0029 m^3/s)
• maximum	1,310 cu ft/s (37 m^3/s)

Sand Canyon Wash is an approximately 6.9-mile (11.1 km) (to its longest source) tributary of San Diego Creek in Orange County, California.^[4]

Course

Its headwaters rise in the northern San Joaquin Hills as two streams, Shady Canyon Creek and Bommer Canyon Creek, then flows northwest into Sand Canyon Reservoir, formed by a dam across Strawberry Valley east of the community of Turtle Rock near Irvine. The dry creek bed continues northwest from the reservoir, turning west where it enters the city of Irvine, flowing along the northeastern boundary of William R. Mason Regional Park.

The creek then turns west to empty into San Diego Creek in its San Joaquin Marsh section, about 2 miles (3.2 km) above where the larger creek enters Upper Newport Bay.^[5]

See also

• San Diego Creek bicycle path
• San Joaquin Hills

References

1. "USGS Gage #11048553 on Sand Canyon Creek at Irvine, CA". National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. 2001–2014. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
2. "USGS Gage #11048553 on Sand Canyon Creek at Irvine, CA". National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. 2001–2014. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
3. "Sand Canyon Wash". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. 1981-01-19. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
4. "Introduction to San Diego Creek Watershed". Watershed and Coastal Resources Division of Orange County. Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
5. San Diego Creek Watercourses and Elevation Ranges (Map). Cartography by Watershed and Coastal Resources Division of Orange County. OC Watershed. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved 2009-12-14.